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2. A B&M 2-6-0 spots a car inside Earl Brockway Boats. The Mogul was painted and weathered by Leon Wasiak. 3. The crew of an arriving Boston & Maine train finds a healthy number of waiting passengers as they ease up to the depot in Cambridge, Mass. allowed me to climb on the railroad when working on hard-to-get-at areas. All the track is code 83 Atlas flextrack, while the turnouts are a minimum no. 6. I like larger locomotives and used the largest radius possible, making all trains look more realistic on curves. For control, I use both conventional DC and a North Coast Engineering Digi-  Layout at a glance Name: Old Colony & South Shore RR Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: 24'-6" x 33'-6" with an 8'-0" x 16'-6" staging area Prototype: Boston & Maine Period: 1920 to 1940 Locale: northeastern U.S. Layout style: walkaround Length of mainline run: 200 feet Layout height: 47" to 51" Benchwork: open grid Roadbed: cork and 1 ⁄2 " plywood Track: code 83 flextrack Turnout minimum: no. 6 Minimum radius: 36" Maximum grade: 1 percent Scenery: extruded-foam insulation board, wire screen, and Hydrocal Backdrop: painted walls, printed backdrop scenes Control: Cab control and N.C.E. Digital Command Control (DCC) Tunnel Dellabarre Tap & Die Cambridge Crossing Station 3 4 Tenement houses 1 Threadwell Textiles Tunnel Tunnel Coal tower Stairs down Staging Double crossover Enclosed stairway (trains run on shelf above stairs) Truss bridge Sand house Boiler house and chimney Five-stall Scale: 3⁄8" = 1'-0" 24" grid HO scale Numbered arrows indicate photo locations enginehouse Waterfall and trestle Water tank Otis Coal Co. 120-foot turntable 47" 503⁄4" 10/04 • Model Railroader 81 Illustration by Rick Johnson tal Command Control (DCC) system. All the electrical switches, push buttons, and cab connections are recessed in the fascia and don’t intrude into the aisles. I used 14 AWG (American Wire Gauge) electrical wire for the power bus, with feeders to the track about every six feet. I soldered every other joint on the 3-foot lengths of flextrack. (The unsoldered joint allows for expansion.) A layout in keeping with its era When I started, I purchased anything that caught my eye and ended up with a hodgepodge of locomotives and plastic cars. I’m slowly reworking my equipment roster to concentrate on rolling stock that operated in New England between 1920 and 1940. The structures and details on my railroad are going through the same process of refinement. It’s enjoyable work – structures and scenery are my favorite aspects of the hobby. In the beginning, I mostly used craftsman kits for the key structures on my Old Colony & South Shore. Fine Scale Miniatures, South River Models, Builders-in-Scale, and Sheepscot River Models were some of my favorite structure manufacturers. I’ve also scratchbuilt my own structures based on buildings I remember from my youth and structures located in New Bedford, Mass. I find building my own designs to be fun and more Cliff Coutinho’s Old Colony & South Shore 491⁄2" 461⁄4" Buttermilk Bay Emporium Seafood 2 Double crossover Sleepy Hollow Hardware 5 Brockway Boats Tidewater Wharf